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Distraught pet owners ambush him outside his home, and furry critters tap on his window during dinner, all wanting some sort of advice. Joey the Raccoon has a special request: he has been sent by the God Beaver to solicit the doctor's help in saving their forest from developers. Dolittle reluctantly agrees to look for endangered species living in the forest so that the law can be invoked to protect it. He discovers Ava, a lone Pacific Western Bear, living in the soon-to-be-demolished forest and sets out to find her a mate. Enter Archie, a performing circus bear. Dolittle convinces Archie that he would be happier living in the wild, and to help the bear adjust to the wilderness, the doc relocates his own city-dwelling family to the forest, much to his teenage daughter Charisse's (Raven-Symoné) dismay. But the match between the two bears is not exactly made in heaven, and when the plan backfires, the animals organize and plot a worldwide strike.  Critic Reviews The original Eddie Murphy comedy Dr. Dolitte was a lukewarm and tepid yet entertaining movie filled with cheap laughs, terrible acting, and a painful reminder of Murphy's slow decent into another slump. But alas, the studio gods spoke and a sequel became unavoidable when the original Dr. Dolittle (er, the original Eddie Murphy Dolittle, itself being a remake) grossed over $290 million dollars worldwide -- not including sales from the hip-hop soundtrack. Well, Murphy has lost the nappy deadlocks of the first film and again takes on the role of the intrepid animal doctor/interpreter Dr. Dolittle in Dr. Dolittle 2. This time around, Dolittle has honed his communication skills and runs a joint animal and human medical office in beautiful San Francisco. Over the past few years, Dolittle has become the Sigmund Freud of the animal kingdom -- providing sexual advice to a turtle with erectile dysfunction, overseeing support groups for stray dogs, and guest-starring on Crocodile Hunter. One night, a raccoon with a thick Brooklyn accent shows up at his door and requests that the Doc meet with The Beaver -- the head of some type of animal Mafia in the Marin County forests. The Beaver requests that the Doc stop a evil logging company -- controlled by Jeffery Jones and Kevin Pollack -- from clear-cutting the homes of all of the forest dwellers. The only way to save the forest lies in the loins of an endangered species of bear named Archie (voiced by Steve Zahn), whom the Doc has to retrain in how to live in the wild so he can mate with another bear named Ava (voiced by Lisa Kudrow). If Archie and Ava do the mystery dance and produce little Archies and Avas, the forest would then be deemed off-limits from the clutches of evil logging company. The only problem is that Archie is a circus bear who best knows how to dance to disco and has the demeanor of Woody Allen -- Wayne Newton in a bear suit. So its up to the Doc to teach Archie how to be the alpha male of the wild, save the forest from the overacting of Kevin Pollack, learn how to communicate with his own human family, and somehow make us believe that a talking monkey has a drinking problem. The voice talent is where the gold lies. Steve Zahn's dry wit and apathy give Archie the Bear the comedic edge it needs to compliment the excellent training of the animal (coupled with his CGI manipulation). Norm Macdonald returns in his role of the wisecracking family dog Lucky and provides added humor. The various voice talents of Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Rappaport, Kudrow, and Molly Shannon are witty but don't draw attention away from the amazing animatronics of the talking animals. But Dolittle 2 suffers from a serious identity crisis and, like the original, never really sells the humanization of its animal characters. Worse still, the film constantly veers among being a Hallmark special, an environmentalist call to arms, a cheap rip-off of a Farrelly brothers comedy complete with fart and poop jokes, and a family film about cute animals and important messages like "being yourself and never compromising your dreams."   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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